A cold day with a bit of drizzle. These are hard times for nature. The early warm spells have brought the season forward. The plants bud and are caught out by cold snaps. Everything is thrown out of synch. The flowers open before pollinators have emerged. Predators emerge before prey. It messes all the timing up. The result is chaos. Global warming is creating havoc in the world of plants and animals. We’ll see if it can change quickly enough.
Today I largely stayed in – watched the rugby and edited. On page 178 of the Beefheart book. I’m getting there!!
It’s been good to play some Davey Graham. Such a brilliant guitarist. Too much heroin. It stopped him from achieving what he was capable of. Our loss.
Meanwhile, out in Coronaland the situation is becoming laughable. Our resident clown is desperately trying to hang on to power. The rats are already jumping ship, his ministers are breaking ranks and speaking out against him, the letters are flying in, the cake knives are out and the smiley-faced usurpers are denying they are interested while positioning themselves.
This is a dead man walking but the lobotomized fool can’t quite see it. He still thinks that he’ll scrape through and everyone will forget. The polls will straighten up and he’ll be popular again.
Ain’t gonna happen. Once people see through you the bubble has burst. It’s like a segment of the public has awoken from hypnosis. The fingers have been clicked. I don’t think the clown will be able to put them under again.
There are three ways this can go:
He can stumble on, ignoring everything, and continue to do damage to his party and all around him until something finally delivers the coup de grace.
He can resign and put everyone out of their agony.
He can wait to be voted out with a vote of no confidence and suffer the humiliation of being told he’s a useless cretin who is now a liability.
We’ve got the MET report, Sue Green’s unredacted report, The May elections, the reality of Brexit, the cost of living crisis, the tax rises, inflation, price rises, the energy crisis, further blunders, the covid report and revelations. It’s a question of time. Even a competent person would struggle and Johnson is far from competent.
The clown is hoping that he can scrape through this, survive the MET and Gray, get on the front foot with an amazing new set of initiatives, regain his popularity, not make any more blunders and emerge into the sunny uplands.
About as much chance of that as Brexit and Levelling up working – and that’s never going to happen!
I hope he staggers on lying and lying and lying, dragging the Tories further into the mire until he does for them all.
Who do I want to see succeed him? Rees-Mogg of course! He’s the most obnoxious, smarmy profiteer. Surely nobody in their right minds would vote for him.
Mind you, Gove, Sunak, Patel, Doris and Truss would give him a run for his money. If I was betting I’d say Sunak will get it. They think he’s popular. But will the public really take to someone who, with wealth of around £430 million is richer than the Queen? Would they think that he could possibly relate to poor people or have their interests at heart? I don’t think so. Too smarmy by half.
This is the heartless bastard who cut universal credit while doing a multimillion-pound renovation of his luxury mansions. A true Tory man of the people.
I shall watch the ensuing knifings and intrigue with interest. The sooner we rid ourselves of the whole bunch of these corrupt Tory profiteers the better.
British people have a class problem – we keep voting these self-serving elite into power. It’s time we learnt our lesson!!
So yesterday there were 82,053 new cases with 254 deaths. Is it coming down? Who knows? It’s anybody’s guess!’
Reinfections are increasing with people going down with one variant after another. The booster programme is stalling because partygate has removed all confidence. Omicron variant BA.2 is storming the world and is even more contagious.
Don’t worry, Downing Street is highly organised, our PM is focussed and all is well!!
Stay safe!! (You’re on your own – they are playing politics – if they’re playing at all!!)
Opher – I think this coming week – most likely before parliament goes into (yet another!) recess on Thursday – we will see the timetabling of a no confidence vote in the clown. More letters to the 22 will be sent, more voices will be heard guiding the P.M to resign. A busy week! I don’t see the Tories have much choice other than axe the clown: in the interests of the nation, and our international reputation, BoJo the mendacious has become a full-blown, full-time, toxic liability. The population have tired of him. Those I talk with simply loathe the repugnant man.
Sunak is a favorite contender for P.M, but I think he’s too inexperienced, and probably better off sticking with numbers. Truss, Gove, Hunt, Patel is no choice whatsoever, none of them could make it on the world stage, although Truss does appear to have MP’s continuing support…dependent, no doubt, on the successful outcome of Brexit trade negotiations with NI and the EU. Time will tell.
Interesting days and weeks ahead! Can’t wait for the release of Gray’s full report, nor content from the Met’s investigation. If those reports don’t nail him, perhaps nothing will. God help us all!
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I think he’ll be gone soon! But I think they know there is nobody fit to take his place and nobody that the public will take to. Johnson is a useless shambling clown but, for reasons that escape me, he was well-liked and a phenomenon. His bubble burst! The Tories are in a difficult place. The cost of living is through the roof. Chickens are coming home to roost. People are waking up.